Pretty much. There are some very old brick buildings along the river there...and a residential section full of beauties as well. Lots of shipping there in 1800s/early 1900s; one of the big commodities was ice!

Ice. Can you imagine making a living with ice? My mom always talked about the ice man coming to the house with the block for the icebox. And stealing chips from the back of the truck. Now people get annoyed when their ice and water dispenser on the front of their fridge is off a wee bit.

The ice trade was HUGE up here in Maine...there was even a town named Iceboro on the Kennebec River--houses, schools, etc.--that was active from, say, Dec/Jan through March...the whole industry collapsed when refrigeration was invented...

At last!

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